They always do it that way. I think a large part of it is legal nonsense that gives them more options with money and stuff by not officially ending things. Something like that. I could look it up, but too lazy.

A Smart Politics review of Republican primary election data since 1972 finds that Mitt Romney's performances in Delaware and Pennsylvania mark the first time a GOP frontrunner has failed to reach the 60 percent mark in a contest conducted after his last major challenger dropped out of the race.

They always do it that way. I think a large part of it is legal nonsense that gives them more options with money and stuff by not officially ending things. Something like that. I could look it up, but too lazy.

Articles here and there today in PA about how the primary yesterday was the test rollout for the new Voter ID laws. But the turnout was so low that very few people got to experience. Thus a lot of concern about how a lot of people in November are not going to have the proper credentials and thus be denied their vote.

When does the good Doctor usually suspend his presidential campaigns, anyway? I know RONPAUL usually disappears with a fart-like whimper, but should I start plugging my nose now or can I wait for a few weeks?

When does the good Doctor usually suspend his presidential campaigns, anyway? I know RONPAUL usually disappears with a fart-like whimper, but should I start plugging my nose now or can I wait for a few weeks?

He has sort of a proxy (Gary Johnson) running in his real libertarian universe. Last I heard, Johnson was actually polling well enough to be a threat to Romney on some ballots.

Sorry to go OT but this is too good. The White House crasher, Tareq Salahi is running for governor here as a Republican AND this is where it gets good, he's being sued by current AG Cuccinnelli who is also a likely candidate.

Sorry to go OT but this is too good. The White House crasher, Tareq Salahi is running for governor here as a Republican AND this is where it gets good, he's being sued by current AG Cuccinnelli who is also a likely candidate.

"Your Honour, he just came in and put his name on the ballot! Didn't go through the proper process or anything!"

I think I should have spent the extra money and gone with the quad-processing MacBook. My fan seems to run anytime I have more than 2 applications open and if I try to use Photoshop I an only use photoshop.

Sorry to go OT but this is too good. The White House crasher, Tareq Salahi is running for governor here as a Republican AND this is where it gets good, he's being sued by current AG Cuccinnelli who is also a likely candidate.

Finally got to download the audible of Master and the Margarita. I've been hearing so much about it here, it is my next listen.

Also the Rise and Fall --William Shirer and the Complete Sonnets of Shakespeare.

Think I'll be satisified?

I haven't read all of Rise and Fall but what I did was good. Plus Bill Shirer was actually there. He was a journalist not historian though. Haven't read Shakes' sonnets but his plays are good despite what Tolstoy said.

The campaign's most absurd unpaid expenses were more than $1 million to the private jet company Moby Dick Airways, nearly $450,000 to a security firm, and more than $500,000 in travel reimbursements and other payments to individual staffers and consultants.

I haven't read all of Rise and Fall but what I did was good. Plus Bill Shirer was actually there. He was a journalist not historian though. Haven't read Shakes' sonnets but his plays are good despite what Tolstoy said.

While the Southern Baptist Convention’s political arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is mired in scandal resulting from ERLC head Richard Land’s repeated plagiarism and inflammatory remarks on race, it has found time to criticize the Violence Against Women Act. Doug Carlson, manager for administration and policy communications for the ERLC, voiced the group’s opposition to the highly successful law because of new provisions that ensure that LGBT victims of domestic violence do not encounter discrimination while seeking help.

Carlson quoted a letter Richard Land signed along with Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel, Jim Garlow of Renewing American Leadership Action, Tom McClusky of Family Research Council Action, C. Preston Noell of Tradition, Family, Property Inc., Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum and Penny Nance and Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America.

Notably, the letter was also signed by conservative activist Timothy Johnson, who was convicted of a felony domestic violence charge and was arrested a second time for putting his wife in a wrist lock and choking his son, as reported by Sarah Posner.

Pat Robertson has long had a tense relationship with the scientific community, even going so far as to tell residents of a Pennsylvania town that in a school board election voted against supporters of teaching Intelligent Design that “if there is a disaster in your area don’t turn to God, you just rejected him from your city…I recommend they call on Charles Darwin, maybe he can help them.” Today on the 700 Club, the televangelist offered a confusing response to a question about the compatibility of science and religion, saying that the “trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there.” Robertson maintained that scientists “can’t speculate about the origins of life because they weren’t there” but then claimed it is appropriate to believe a “geologist who tells you something existed 300 million years ago.”

Based on that logic, Evangelicals are no longer allowed to say what Jesus meant because they weren't there.

the “trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there.” Robertson maintained that scientists “can’t speculate about the origins of life because they weren’t there”

Really, they should be seen, not read. I mean, they're plays. The performance is a key part to the experience.

Well when you're taking a class, you usually get one play production. I got Richard II for example. I had a great aha moment as the lone history major when I connected Richard's relationship with Henry IV to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth i.

Nope. He'll have a FOX gig in no time. Though I'm sure all his "Romney is too liberal" statements will go down the memory hole quickly enough.

Only until Mittens get's curb stomped (which the VP process is making look all the more likely) then it'll all be there to help with the "we only lost because he wasn't conservative enough" narrative. That's the main reason he'll get the Fox gig; they'll only really want him to help further poison the well after Obama's re-election.

The school in Middle Lake, near Humboldt, is planning for this year's graduation and one student suggested that they no longer have someone say grace prior to the dinner.
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Nantau said not long after Jake made the suggestion, her son was the target of vandalism.
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“Mickey Wienstien, we called you on the weekend to advice you that our womens prayer circle at our church will be ending your wickedness against Christ Jesus and his anointed of the USA in our military. In America which is Jesus’ country we can pray all we want for anything we want. you hung up on us and were rude to our leader. but will that stop us or Christ Jesus? No it will not and never could have, wicked Mickey. Our prayer circle has never failed to acheive our hosts granting of the scripture we pray. for direct intervention against you as you are a true demon to America. Luke 9:1 We will not stop our prayers until you stop the evil you do with Lucifer on a daly basis. Luke 9:1 But not against you Mickey. We know by your internet site and your book who it is to be. Now for our prayer, we pray that the women who work in your MFRR and the women in your family will befall fast moving breast cancer which can not everbe cured. We pray this for Leah Bruton, and Becki Miller, Patricia Corigan, Chris Rodda, Edie Disler, Vicky Garrison, Kristin Leslie, Melinda Moeton and Joan Slish. And you evil clan too, we pray this for Bonnie Wiensten and Amanda and Amber Wienstein and the woman lawyers Cariline Mitchel and Katherin Ritchy and all women of all who work at with for Military Freedom Against Religon Foundation. know that we pray and pray hard all the days until you stop your destruction of our American army and accept Christ Jesus as Lord and join His army.”

While states across the nation are imposing new restrictions on abortion procedures, California advanced legislation yesterday to expand access to a first-trimester abortions. Under a senate measure, “nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants would be able to perform what is known as an ‘aspiration’ abortion, which is the most common abortion procedure and takes place in the first trimester of a pregnancy.” A separate bill advanced in an Assembly Committee “passed a separate bill that would expand access to birth control by allowing registered nurses to dispense the medication.”

Suck it 3rd world America, some states are actually in the 21st century.

Cue the RWNJ wailing and gnashing of teeth about censorship in 3...2...1...

Christ, can you imagine if a soldier did that under Bush/Cheney? The RWNJs would be posting that person's family's address all over the web.

The best part: now we have a disgruntled Marine of 10 years, more than likely a gun owner, who clearly has problems with Obama. Their recent problems not withstanding, I do not envy the Secret Service at times like this.

Also, I'm calling it now: Ted Nugent is going to hook up with this guy somehow.

A state representative from Tennessee attributed the recent wave of teen suicides to poor parenting during a speech in the Tennessee House last night, as he made his case against a cyber bullying bill.

“We’ve had some horrible things happen in America and in our state, and there’s children that have actually committed suicide, but I will submit to you today that they did not commit suicide because of somebody bullying them, ” State Rep. Jeremy Faison (R) said. “They committed suicide because they were not instilled the proper principles of where their self-esteem came from at home.”

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'He's had a couple of incidences with his car. Somebody removed the lug nuts on a tire. We had a car window smashed.'

I forgot to mention that when I was 17 one of my school buddies had his father, younger brother and aunt killed in a car accident when one of the wheels fell off. The lug nuts had either been loosened or not tightened enough.

Yeah not because of assholes who think it's okay to make someone's life hell because they're different. What a shithead.

Suicide, teen or not, is the result of a great many complex issues. Assigning any given suicide to any one cause without actually carefully investigating is stupid, generalizing as done here goes beyond stupidity into irresponsible ignorance.

All statistics about suicide can do is give us a starting point for preventative action, it should not be used to incorrectly assign blame.

A ruling against leading Egyptian actor Adel Imam, who was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison for “insulting Islam” in his films, sends out the message that Egypt has not moved on from its Mubarak-era heritage of suppressing free speech, Amnesty International said today.

The actor, who was also fined (around £100), was first found guilty in absentia in February for his film roles in a case originally brought last year by a lawyer. In filing his complaint of contempt of religion, the lawyer used Article 98(f) of the Penal Code, which punishes “whoever exploits religion in words or writing or any other methods to promote extremist ideologies, with a view of stirring up sedition, disparaging or contempt of any divine religion or its adherents, or prejudicing national unity and social peace.”

Honestly, anti bullying efforts should cover everything. I am not gay. I was picked on for talking different and I think people just thought I was weird because I struggle with eye contact and stuff like that.

OT, but I want to bounce a hypothetical off folks here. If you had a business here in the States and you wanted to expand into Europe, would you make your initial investment in the UK, or would you go elsewhere, like Germany or France?

The Eurozone crisis has me tied in knots. I'm not entirely sure which direction is the most appropriate, because the austerity in various countries is confusing.

The common language and fact that there wouldn't be much need for localization for products is what makes the UK attractive. It's just that I'm reading all these stories about how their economy just hit a double dip recession and that investment is down. There is the implication that Germany and/or France would be better initial targets because they're supposedly in stronger positions.

I'll shoot an email your way tonight after I get home from the library. Thanks!

The unspoken and horrible truth about bullying isn't that bullies do what they do hidden from authorities. It's that the authorities quite often know about it and don't do anything either because the bully has important parents, or because they feel that the bullied child deserves it in some way.

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From Sen. Schumer's Facebook page: There are two simple reasons the comparison does not hold water. First, the federal RFRA was written narrowly to protect individuals' religious freedom from government interference unless the government or state had a compelling interest. ...

UPDATE MARCH 30: NEW TIME FOR LIVE STREAM - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PDT NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on ...

What's this? Another article on Cracked about how incorrigibly tribal-minded us homo sapiens are? Well, yes. But the proverbial devil is in the proverbial details. Proverbially. It's still worth reading. That's what I'm getting at. Everyone is talking about Scientology ...

China attacks the biggest code repository in the world. After battling a distributed denial of service attack for four days, GitHub on Monday was able to restore normal service levels. The primary target of the assault is greatfire.org, which is ...

An American woman--presumably not Muslim, though she doesn't say one way or the other--married to a Libyan man is taken aback when her 9-year-old daughter suddenly wants to start wearing hijab. This is the story of how conflicted she felt ...

NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Big Wall Street banks are so upset with U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, ...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a ...

Depending on the outcome of a hearing scheduled for Monday, a 33-year-old Indiana woman could face up to 70 years in prison for what she says was a miscarriage. Reproductive rights advocates say her case is a disturbing example ...

The number of things getting plugged into the "Internet of Things" has already reached the point of satire. But there's a new, extremely low power technology that's being prepared for market that could put computing power and network access ...

Are conservatives anti-science? Spoiler: Conservatives aren't anti-science or pro-science. But, they are pro-common-sense. And once more scientists adopt common sense approach to science, they'll find that they have the support of conservative politicians - the people whose job it is ...

cracked.com Once the fighting started, a lot of people died, well over a million on our side alone. For the war to continue, a constant stream of new fighters had to join up, and they didn't have the benefit of ...

Here is an interesting article on one of Tail Gunner Joe's sick witch hunts that has, unfortunately, been forgotten. I try not to feel schadenfreude of the fate of McCarthy's side kick, Ray Cohn, but I never succeed.

About the Graphic How should a woman try to get ahead in a male-dominated workplace? Perhaps the answer lies less on women "manning up" and more in how businesses value their employees. Many women confront this tension as they ...

If we accept the idea of Orthopraxy over Orthodoxy, then what does evangelism look like? What is the Witness of those who try to follow the Way of Christ Jesus? To evangelize is to spread the good news that we ...

A short column in The Nation that is a must read. The primary difference between liberalism and conservatism, at least in theory, is that the latter is an ideology and the former isn't. Conservatism, as Milton Friedman argued, posits that ...

Blow off Snowden all you like, but what was revealed to be true is still true. The NSA lacks oversight with power. FISA is already too much and now they casually exceed even that generous provision. The world first learned ...

This is a powerful admission of culpability and I applaud his courage in making it. It really should be read in its entirety. Glenn Ford should be completely compensated to every extent possible because of the flaws of a system ...

Sarah Vine of the DM gets it wrong: SARAH VINE: Teaching 11-year-olds about rape is a form of child abuse The problem with this country, I've come to realise, is that it treats adults like children and children like adults. ...